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Lenovo Delivers Hybrid AI to the Enterprise

Rob Tiffany — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 04:00:00 GMT

Lenovo announces Hybrid AI Advantage with NVIDIA to accelerate its AI ambitions in the enterprise by supporting AI workloads that span multiple computing environments. Combined with their TruScale dedicated cloud infrastructure offering, customers get the same kind of pay-as-you-go pricing and dynamic scaling they experience with public clouds.

Qualys unveils its Risk Operations Center at the 2024 Americas Security Conference

Michelle Abraham, Philip Bues — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 04:00:00 GMT

Qualys held its QSC Americas 2024 conference in San Diego from October 7-10, 2024. The company highlighted a number of products, some of which were announced last quarter, but the focus of the keynote was the risk operations center or ROC and the overall theme was “security risk is business risk”, a multi-faceted business outcome mantra that IDC has been evangelizing and the market has now embraced.

Multi-cloud continues to gain momentum as the new reality for most organizations. Qualys’ flagship vulnerability management, detection and response (VMDR) solution for on-premises is now part of its cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP), TotalCloud, which collects, correlates, contextualizes, prioritizes and remediates signal alerts and threat intelligence from both on-premises and the cloud. These innovations come at an opportune time as the attack surface continues to expand with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs).

2024年国内クラウド市場テクノロジー動向分析：GenAIの発展が与える影響

Satoshi Matsumoto — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 04:00:00 GMT

本調査レポートは、著しい発展を続けるGenerative AI（生成系AI：以下、GenAI）、マルチクラウド／クラウドネイティブに関わるテクノロジー動向を分析し、国内クラウド市場に与える影響を考察したものである。

現在、GenAIを活用したAI（Artificial Intelligence：人工知能）エージェントに関わる製品／サービスを多くのベンダーが提供を始めた。AIエージェントは登場して間もないが、急速にマルチAIエージェントシステムに進化する。マルチAIエージェントシステムは、ユースケースを飛躍的に拡大し、ベンダーにとって先行者利益が見込める分野である。「ベンダーはエコシステムを活性化して、マルチAIエージェントシステムを活用したオファリングの開発速度を上げることが重要である」と、IDC Japan、Software & Servicesのリサーチディレクターである松本聡は述べている。

AI Edge Application Highlight, 2024: Healthcare

Nina Turner — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation highlights edge AI applications in healthcare, use cases, and the implications for edge AI devices.

Disaster Recovery in the Cloud, 2024

Penny Madsen, Ryan Caskey — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey draws upon IDC's Cloud Pulse Survey responses from around 1,300 cloud buyers, each over four quarters to find out how disaster recovery (DR) is being factored into cloud strategies and where future investments will focus. Organizations, their customers and regulators, are placing an increased emphasis on resiliency, and this is driving a more modern approach to disaster recovery, which is now factoring in many cloud strategies.

IFS Unleashed Shows the Company is All-in on AI

Sarah Lee, Aly Pinder, Brian O'Rourke — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 04:00:00 GMT

The IFS Unleashed Conference took place in in Orlando, Florida from October 14th to the 18th with over 3,000 attendees, a significantly larger number than at the last Unleashed event two years ago. The company’s announced goal is to become “the undisputed category leader in industrial software” and the theme of the show was the addition of artificial intelligence (AI) to all parts of its’ business. The company emphasized that it intends the IFS Cloud Platform to create a “class leading industrial ai platform that empowers customers globally to dynamically manage their mission critical assets, workflows, people and service in a responsible way.” The company also mentioned the need to increase mindshare, particularly in the US market, for which the company has hired their first Head of External Affairs. The event explored a different focus each day: Unleash innovation, Your AI blueprint, and Frictionless transformation.

Key Challenges Enterprises Face with IaaS Network Services in the Cloud

Taranvir Singh — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Survey Spotlight offers insights into the top challenges that enterprises face with the usage of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) network services from cloud service providers such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and Oracle. These survey results are drawn from IDC's 2024 IaaS Network Services Special Report, driven by an extensive multiregional survey of 1,000 key enterprise network experts across North America and Western Europe.

This presentation covers key enterprise concerns associated with IaaS network services. The focus of this research is IaaS network services offered by cloud service providers to enable networking and connectivity across the enterprise digital infrastructure. While this IDC Survey Spotlight offers only a view into total responses, results are available by geographic region, select country, company size, major vertical industries, respondent's title (e.g., cloud/network architects, VP/directors/managers) and infrastructure deployment type (hybrid/multicloud).

"IDC research indicates that the top-ranked drivers for modern enterprises using IaaS network services from cloud service providers is to derive all the hyperscale cloud benefits of scalability, resiliency, security, and global reach. Certainly, among other top drivers, organizations want to improve staff productivity, enhance network service quality, provide better developer experience, and more. IDC research also indicates that enterprise organizations face several challenges while using IaaS network services. High costs, complex management, scalability issues, security, and observability are just some of the barriers causing concern among organizations. IaaS networking providers must address these challenges promptly. Providers that proactively tackle these issues will position themselves as the go-to partners for enterprises navigating the networking demands of modern digital applications distributed across clouds, on-prem, and edge environments." — Taranvir Singh, research manager, Cloud Networking Services, IDC

NVIDIA and Meta Advance Open Standardizations for AI Clusters with OCP Global Summit Announcements

Chris Drake, Natalya Yezhkova — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 04:00:00 GMT

By releasing its Blackwell accelerated compute platform to the OCP community, NVIDIA is looking to make it easier for cloud service providers (SPs) and other datacenter operators to deploy AI-ready infrastructure that supports the most demanding large language models (LLMs). OCP founding member Meta is also contributing to this initiative with the upcoming release of its Catalina rack architecture to the OCP community.

AMD's Advancing AI Event Highlights Several Networking Product Announcements and AMD's Strength in DPUs and SmartNICs for Generative AI Solutions

Brandon Hoff — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 04:00:00 GMT

AMD announced its AI NIC 400G for AI Factory scale-out infrastructure and provides 400Gbps performance Next-Gen RDMA, direct to GPU memory offload, packet spraying, and reordering to support the networking requirements for GenAI LLMs. AMD announced its Pensando Salina DPU for AI Factory front-end connectivity to storage and to users. AMD adding critical products to deliver Accelerated AI solutions to its CPU and GPU product families.

SAP NOW Southeast Asia 2024: AI and Sustainability Business Transformation

Melvie Espejo — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Note highlights the news and insights from the recently concluded SAP NOW Southeast Asia 2024 event in Singapore. The document focuses on SAP announcements in relation to how the vendor is leveraging AI to enhance its portfolio of offerings that include sustainability solutions. Key insights included the integration of AI in SAP's RISE and GROW packages, the importance of a Clean Core strategy to maximize value derived from AI, and the role of Joule — SAP's AI copilot. The event underscored the expanding use cases of AI in sustainability, emphasizing its impact on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) outcomes, operational efficiency, and business value creation in the region.

"AI and sustainability are not just trends; they are the future of business transformation in Southeast Asia," said Melvie Espejo, Director, IDC Asia/Pacific Sustainable Strategies and Technologies.